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The Duckie Christmas Market
Xmas Market
10 - 30 December 2011 / 18:00, 14:00
Foyers
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Tickets:
Free, open to all visitors at the Barbican
subject to availability
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Crafty Christmas Workshops
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Crafty Christmas Workshops
Learn homely new craft skills and make your Christmas a very handmade one. Create your own Christmas cards, wrapping paper, decorations and fairy lights. Bring your Mum, bring your kids, bring your Nan… and ditch the chainstores!
All workshops are £6 each, suitable for absolute beginners and all materials are provided free (except for fairy lights strings). Not all workshops are suitable for children – please check under specific workshop. Children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Booking now open: see below.
Workshop times: 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm & 6.30pm
Each workshop lasts for an hour.
Workshops will be held in the Hammerson Room in Barbican foyer, just next to the Duckie Christmas Market.
Saturday 10 December
Festive Home Making Accessories
With Jessica Aldred
Christmas dinner at yours? Impress your guests with a festive napkin holder, a tree decoration, a brooch or a wrist corsage. Using beads as berries, and felt red and green for flowers and leaves. Keep it homely this Christmas.
Suitable for ages 10+
Book now for Festive Home Making Accessories workshop
Posh Pens & Calligraphy
With Velko Kespersaks
Get tooled up for this season's innovative homemade Christmas cards by making your own pen and learning simple bold italic handwriting styles. Dynamic strokes, expressive writing, this is calligraphy for absolute beginners.
Suitable for adults only – tin-cutting involved.
Book now for Post Pens & Calligraphy workshop
Sunday 11 December
Fairy Light Shades
With Maria Papadimitrou
Jazz up those cheap shop-bought fairy lights with quirky individuality using recycled gizmos that look bright and beautiful. Only suitable for new strings, so you will be able to purchase our safer, family-friendly low energy LED fairy lights at the workshop. Warning: Remember never to leave fairy lights on when you leave the house.
All ages.
Book now for Fairy Light Shades workshop
Saturday 17 December
It’s a Wrap!
With Gillian Elam
Print your very own vintage inspired Christmas wrapping paper. Create a printing block, and use this to create your own festive paper and matching tags. Take the block home and use it for future gifts, tags or even cards.
All ages.
Book now for It's a Wrap workshop
Homemade Christmas Decorations
With Sarah Turner
Make pretty strings of Christmas decorations to impress your mates and your family. Hide messages and small gifts inside… and they make perfect stocking fillers too.
Age 6+. Some cutting involved so parental assistance essential.
Book now for Homemade Christmas Decorations workshop
Sunday 18 December
Screen Printed Christmas Decorations, Garlands & Pennants
With Xtina Lamb
Create screen printed decorations to hang as mini pennants or garlands on the Christmas tree. Choose from a selection of festive motifs and print by hand onto fabrics.
Age 7 years or over.
Book now for Screen Printed Decorations workshop
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